N. Korea fires two short-range projectiles into East Sea

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said North Korea fired two
projectiles into the East Sea early Tuesday.

According to JCS announcement,
the projectiles assumed to be short-range ballistic missiles were fired at 5:24
a.m. and 5:36 a.m. from North Korea's southwestern county of Kwail in
Hwanghaenamdo, and both flew around 450km across the peninsula into the East
Sea at a maximum altitude of 37km.

Pyongyang has conducted a series
of missile tests recently in protest of the joint military drills between South
Korea and the United States.

The JCS said the allies’ intelligence authorities are analyzing the exact type
of projectiles, but they are believed to have similar flight features to the
ballistic missiles North Korea test-fired on July 25th.